Hall of the Mountain King

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Hall of the Mountain King by Marsden Hartley

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
36.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
23.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
4.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#575461 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 323°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 36.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 23.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 36.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Hall of the Mountain King" (1909) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Blue and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #C7C088 pulls the eye.

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